Nikhil Raghavan

Nikhil Raghavan is an accomplished technology executive with extensive experience in product management and entrepreneurship. Currently serving as Vice President of Product at Etsy since 2017, Raghavan played a crucial role in driving the company's market cap growth from $1 billion to over $10 billion in just two years. Prior to Etsy, Raghavan co-founded and served as CEO of Blackbird Technologies, Inc., which was acquired by Nasdaq in 2016, specializing in commerce search and discovery utilizing deep learning and artificial intelligence. Additional experience includes roles as Entrepreneur In Residence in Venture Capital, part of the founding team at XAP and lead in product management at Oracle, and contributions to the founding team of Yahoo's Structured Web Search/Search Monkey. Raghavan began the career at Google, Inc., and has served on the Board of Directors for the Melton Foundation. Raghavan holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.